Richard Cox
A calm, direct therapist for stuck patterns
About Richard
Richard Cox works with people who feel stuck in familiar patterns. He meets thoughtful, capable clients who often understand their history but keep repeating the same reactions when stressed. He is calm and direct, and aims to help people notice what their bodies and emotions are doing so they can try something different.
He focuses on the feelings that get avoided, the anxiety that keeps those feelings shut down, and the coping habits that protect yet limit life.
Background and approach
Richard describes therapy as active and focused rather than purely conversational. Sessions pay attention to what happens in the room and how the body responds as well as the stories a person tells. Clients and therapist look for how anxiety shows up physically and how people move away from certain emotions.
That helps reveal patterns that shape relationships and everyday choices. Work then moves toward gently giving the nervous system a new experience so change can follow. Richard draws on attachment-based, psychodynamic and Jungian ideas to make sense of early emotional wounds and recurring patterns.
He has eight years of clinical experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He commonly supports people with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and relationship or intimacy issues, as well as addictions, grief, sleep and eating concerns, parenting strain and career distress.
He also has a focus on attachment difficulties, codependency, dissociation, and alternative sex cultures such as BDSM and kink. Therapy with Richard aims to be steady and practical. He moves at a pace people can manage while gently challenging repetitions that keep life constrained.
The goal is not to fix someone but to help their emotional system settle so new choices become possible.
What Richard works with
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Sessions & fees
How Richard’s approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current ways of connecting. Online sessions help spot patterns of trust, distance and emotional response so people can try different ways of relating. Psychodynamic and Jungian ideas focus on recurring themes, hidden feelings and inner images that influence daily life. These approaches use conversation and noticing of feelings and body responses to uncover repeating patterns and emotional wounds that often sit beneath surface behaviour.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Richard will discuss what matters to the client and try methods that fit their goals and pace. He works collaboratively, adjusting the focus as people notice what helps and what does not, so the process is guided by shared judgement rather than a fixed plan.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let the therapist and client see facial expression and posture, which supports the body-aware aspects of the work. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins, reflection between sessions or a lower-intensity option for people who find regular speaking difficult. Together these formats allow therapy to fit around work, family life and travel, making it easier to keep continuity and momentum.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
